Example 1 · difficulty 3/5
In the Davisson and Germer experiment, electrons accelerated from rest through 54 V are diffracted by a nickel crystal, giving a strong maximum at a scattering angle of 50°. The de Broglie wavelength of these electrons, computed from the accelerating potential, is closest to:
- A. 1.67 Å
- B. 0.54 Å
- C. 12.27 Å
- D. 7.35 Å